Starfire had no idea what she was hanging by. It was neither rope nor chains. It wasn't plastic but yet she was dangling ten feet off the ground.
"It's part of the circulatory system of the last mundane to wander down here," Trefaniel revealed with a smirk as if reading her thoughts.
Starfire screamed in horror.
Trefaniel chuckled in delight.
Robin came to just then pulling at his weird restraints.
"That's the small intestine by the way," Trefaniel revealed and a strong smell filled the room.
Robin paled and retched painfully. He was no stranger to torture but this was literally another dimension of it.
Trefaniel looked serious now, he changed into his demon from. He was now a very dark purple, almost black with four red eyes and fangs. He looked like a huge cat with big bat wings and a long tail with a poisonous tip like that of a Scorpion
"Your punishment has yet to begin, Boy Wonder... Star princess," he announced, his voice frighteningly doubled. More demons filled the flaming cave.
Robin thought he'd known pain till he was drained by his epididymis for what seemed like an eternity. He was being stretched from the inside out.
Starfire watched in horror willing her powers to work but they didn't. All she could do was sob for what she felt was forever.
It was hell, the torture was endless, she thought helplessly.
She cursed herself silently and cursed whatever had made her pressure Robin into fucking her against the mirror after their shower together.
'This is risky, Star," Robin had said to her. 'Forget the risk, my wonder,' she'd purred seductively and turned her back to him.
Tears barely got down her cheeks before evaporating in the huge scorching cave where she could hear so many screams she couldn't tell which was hers when her turn came.
This was it, she'd be here forever, she thought and gave into hopelessness.
It was 11:20pm. Crystal had been up for over half an hour now. She'd asked Raven to cast a sleeping spell on the tower so they'd all be rested from the turmoil ahead.
The spell was supposed to lose power at 11:40 but she'd woken much earlier.
To be honest, she was still trying to come to terms with the fact that her dad had taken two of her best friends to transdimensional hell for punishment. It had never happened before.
But off course she'd never had any real friends not to say much of friends in a relationship.
No fault of her own.
The short while she'd been to school, her dad had come and threatened everyone at the assembly. They never bothered her but they kept her at a distance in fear. Till she decided school wasn't for her and dropped out, to her father's dismay.
'School is such a mundane construct, dad,' she'd said to him blankly during one of his disappointed lectures and he'd been silent. He continued his home school with her.
Till Wonder Woman gave her the knowledge of the Amazons years later, she always felt her father had thought her everything there was to know.
She stood up now and went to her wardrobe, the one engraved with her real name in her favorite font, Nupital BT. He'd given it to her as a going away present when he finally let her leave for Titans North.
She opened it and took her weapons only Robin knew about and secretly trained with her with.
It was a pair of tessens, a sword, a bow and twenty four arrows that never ran out. There was also a small bag full of tiny but deadly spears that never ran out as well and the mysterious bo staff
The fans were made of an alloy of Amethyst and Titanium, the sword of pure Amethyst, the arrows and tiny spears were made of an alloy of iron and Amethyst.
She never knew what the bow was made of. It was light but didn't feel like wood.
They were the gifts she'd gotten on her first day with the Amazons.
She'd worked hard to train and truly earn them. She'd finally fully earned them and now it was time to use them to save her leader.
She snapped her head back to the window as she watched the sleeping spell disipate.
She grabbed the weapons and rushed to the living room.
She sat on the couch with the weapons near her and waited for the others to get there. They arrived shortly after, looking grim.
"What are those?" Beast Boy asked.
"They're my weapons. I barely use them here but Robin used to help me train with them," Crystal replied.
"Wait, Robin knew about this and we didn't?" Raven inquired, raising an eyebrow.
"Since no powers work there you guys are going to need magical weapons that we would stun the Demons for our duration there," she explained, ignoring Raven's question
"Thought you said no Powers work?" Cyborg asked.
"Nope but Amazon weapons are super powerful and will be really effective against the demons," she replied.
"So what's the plan?" Raven asked. Crystal looked at the half demon, shapeshifter and half robot in front of her with surprise.
"Don't look so shocked Crystal, you're the one with the most knowledge of where were going so off course we'll let you lead the mission," Raven stated.
There was a huge smile on Crystal's face.
"Don't look so happy about it," Cyborg said rolling his eyes but smiling as well.
"Ok. As soon as we teleport there, Cyborg and Beast Boy start fighting the Demons," she began and tossed the bow and arrow at Cyborg and the staff at Beast Boy, "I'm pretty sure y'all can handle them... Don't lose them please." she began.
"Raven while the demons are distracted, you go find Robin and Starfire, I'm sure he'll be keeping them in his special torture cave at the anterior of transdimensional hell. He's usually only uses there for special occasions or for those he really hates," she finished.
"What about your dad?" Cyborg asked.
"Oh, leave him to me," she replied.
"I thinks we're ready to go," Beast Boy said.
Crystal breathed and stood at the centre of the room.
They held hands and she teleported them all.
"Why's it so hot?" Cyborg whispered rather loudly. His voice echoed in the dark.
"Shhhh," Raven and Crystal hushed simulteneously.
"Oh no," the girls chorused again in horrified whispers.
The boys were confused for a while but it dawned on them when they heard the unearthly shrieks.
Cyborg closed his ears as the inhuman shrieks seemed to short out his robotic system.
"Titans... FIGHT!" Crystal let out in fear and shock. She tossed one of her fans to Raven and they began the defense.
It wasn't working.
After a while, Crystal screamed. A scream so underworldly, so frighteningly deafening.
The demons stopped.
Crystal changed into her demon form... A succubus.
She was now a very dark shade of green, her curves seemed to suddenly be overemphasized with a very long tail. She had claws and fangs and her eyes were jet black.
"Let us through... Now," she ordered, her voice doubled.
Raven did same and they heard one of the demons gasp in shock.
"Sorry, my dark empresses. We didn't know," one of the demons apologized.
"Your father would not permit these mundanes in here," another said.
Beast Boy was startled as he watched Crystal slap the demon with her tail.
"Are you saying I am not bringing them under my father's orders?!" she asked, seething.
The demon held his face and stepped back. He apologized profusely.
The demons bowed and let them pass.
As soon as they passed, Crystal whispered to them, "Raven, take the boys with you under the guise of taking them for torture to my dad's cave. Just ask the demons to show you the way. I'll distract my dad. When you get to the cave, tell the demons that Trigon wants Star and Robin brought to the main hell. I'm sure you'll know how to get to your father's domain from there. When you get there, teleport back to the tower," she stated.
"What about you?" Cyborg asked.
"My powers will work again when I'm in the throne room with my dad," she replied.
They parted ways.
"Finally you've accepted your true nature," Trefaniel said as soon as Crystal entered the throne room.
His throne was made of ruby with diamonds criss crossing it. The throne sat at the centre of a ring of fire.
Souls hung from the walls in a pattern like a decoration.
"Excuse us," Trefaniel ordered the demons present. They exited the room.
Trefaniel stood from his throne and flew to his daughter. She felt her power return to her then.
He looked straight at her until he got directly in front of her. He changed to his human form and smiled.
He embraced her. She was startled.
"Did you really think you could sneak the Boy Wonder and Starfire out of here without my knowledge?" he asked.
She paled.
Trefaniel laughed maniacally and clapped his hands.
Cyborg, Beast Boy, Robin and Starfire materialized in front of them.
Robin only had a little of his life force left and she could see him struggling to keep it.
Cyborg was sparking.
Starfire was curled up in a ball, her hair was falling out. Her outfit all but gone.
Beast Boy was crying.
Crystal was infuriated.
She lunged at her dad and dug her claws into his face.
"You dare attack your father?!" he slapped her so hard she fell beside Beast Boy.
The pain stung her cheek and she held her face.
She turned to her friends. Starfire was shaking uncontrollably.
"You're gonna regret that, dad... You're gonna regret everything..."
Trefaniel, for the first time in centuries, was taken aback.
She was acting like her mother now. Fearless, powerful.
Now in her full demon form, she lunged at him again, pinning him to the wall.
Trefaniel stared blankly at his daughter for a moment then smirked, "you truly are embracing your demon side."
He threw her back once more with his powers.
They fought. It was a real battle. Father against daughter.
Raven, who Trefaniel had sent to the main hell, watched through a mirror.
"You know you could've been such a good leader if you had joined me, instead of being a follower to a mundane that you could murder without even lifting a finger."
"The only reason you even became a leader dad is because Trigon is nothing more than an overgrown Middle school bully. He didn't even take your soul."
"Shut up, child!"
"O tantum iustus coepit Voce mea est. Ut expugnarent eum valde ego perire non possit cum amicis meis... epularer," Crystal spelt and her dad cried out. He fell unconscious.
She crawled over to her friends and tried to summon her strength.
When she had done so she teleported back to the tower.
Raven appeared right after she did.
"Rae Rae. You're ok!" She said weakly.
"I'm fine. Your dad couldn't risk losing his position so he sent me to my dad instead," Raven informed.
"I do not think I have the strength to carry out this massive healing without serious damage to my own self. You have to save them Raven," Crystal said.
"What? I don't have a spell... My magic isn't strong enough for healing of this magnitude," Raven stuttered.
"Yes you have a spell and yes your magic is more than strong enough. You can do it Rae," Crystal said, coughing and gasping for air, "You have to hurry, they're losing their life force."
Raven took a deep breath, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!"
A bright light encompassed them for awhile and Crystal heard Cyborg, Starfire, Robin and Beast Boy gasp when they started breathing again.
Raven collapsed and Beast Boy caught her just in time.
He rushed to the tower sick bay.
"What happened?" Robin asked, looking around in confusion.
"You blacked out after my dad's extreme torture methods got to you. We tried to trick my dad and save you but it didn't work. I had to battle my dad to save you guys. I used up all my strength in a spell to weaken my dad and teleport here. Raven had to do some massive healing on us," Crystal explained.
"Wow. I thought we were never gonna be the saved," Starfire said taking in a deep breath.
"Are you okay, Cy?" Crystal asked
"I'm ok. Raven might've healed my human parts but I don't think my robot parts will ever recover. I might need new ones and it won't be the same," Cyborg stated sadly.
"Then let me help you with that...
Internum ejus machine facias retineri viribus humano exerciti," she spelt out.
Cyborg gasped. He was wholly human again.
"Do I still have my powers?" he asked.
"Yep. It's just that your robot parts are now internal except for a small port on your back cause you still need charging and memory back up but you don't have to worry about repairs anymore," she replied.
"This is awesome! Thanks Crystal!" he said, excitedly and his sonic canon formed in his fist then he retracted it with a grin.
"Is Raven gonna be ok?" Robin asked.
"She'll be fine... In the morning," Crystal replied.
"So I guess we have to call you something else now...?" Robin asked Cyborg with a smirk.
"Nah... Cyborg is still fine. I'm not letting it go just yet."
(A/N: Hope you enjoyed reading that chapter! Please review)